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Harris, Rodelpark
Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Dun (Prehistoric)
Site Name Harris, Rodelpark
Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Dun (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Rodil
Canmore ID 10514
Site Number NG08SE 1
NGR NG 0507 8318
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10514
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Harris
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG08SE 1 0507 8318
(NG 0502 8321) Dun (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)
A very dilapidated dun on the summit of a rocky knoll over 100ft above sea level. Traces of a wall (probably 8ft thick) indicate the building to have been circular with an outside diameter of 45ft. The interior is filled with a mass of stones. The SE extension of the summit of the Knoll has probably been enclosed by a wall forming an outer court c.60ft from the wall of the inner building.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.
The remains of a circular dun of which the base-stones of the outer face can be seen for most of its circumference indicating a diameter of 13.5m. The inner face is hidden under a mound of turf covered tumble, but what may be the remains of either a mural cell or gallery, or possibly a stabilising wall, can be seen within the wall thickness on the W and SW sides.
Around the edge of the rocky summit on which the dun stands, are the discontinuous remains of an enclosing wall of indeterminate width. At the N end is an entrance with a path, defined by set stones, from it to the N side of the dun. Within the wall in the S are the scant remains of several small buildings, probably shielings.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 7 July 1969.
Field Visit (11 June 1914)
Dun near Rodil.
About 500 yards north-east of Rodil House, occupying a fine position on the summit of a rocky knoll rising from 20 to 50 feet above the immediate surroundings and over 100 feet above sea-level, is a very much dilapidated dun. In several places the lowest course of the outer facing of the wall is seen, showing the building to have been circular with an outside diameter of 45 feet. A mass of tumbled stones fills the interior and rises 6 feet above the outside foundation course; the wall seems to have been about 8 feet thick. The south-eastern extension of the summit of the knoll has probably been enclosed by a wall forming an outer court extending some 60 feet from the wall of the inner building.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 11 June 1914.
OS map: Harris xxviii.
Publication Account (2007)
NG08 1 DUN RODIL
NG/0501 8330
This probable broch in Harris, classified as a dun by the Commission [2], stands on the summit of a rocky knoll over 30m (100 ft) above sea level. Traces of the base of the outer wallface indicates a circular structure 13.7m (45 ft) in diameter covered by a mass of rubble. The wall seems to have been about 2.44m (8 ft) thick. There seems to have been an outer wall on the south-east [2], or north-west side [3]. Scott gives the internal diameter as about 6.1m (20 ft) and the wall as from 3.66 - 4.27m (12 - 14 ft) thick. Only the circular plan suggests that the site is a broch and, if so, it is a small one.
Sources: NMRS site no. NG 08 SE 1: 2. RCAHMS 1928, 39, no. 121: 3. Scott 1947, 6.
E W MacKie 2007
